This picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on July 10, 2011 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) posing with staff, including a woman who is believe to be Kim Seol Song, second left, after inspecting the commodity exhibition at the Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 in Pyongyang.
Kim Jong Il’s eldest child — a daughter — Seol Song lives in the shadow of her three male siblings. Her mother, a daughter of a high-ranking military official, was handpicked to be Kim Jong Il’s partner. But she would be shunted aside in later years. According to reports, Seol Song remained ever loyal to her father and supervised many of his official trips, accompanying him regularly.